Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-12-23


vile, alleged dynamiters.
nesday night. The mill run Eve weeks
longer this year than last.
Daniel Manning. ex-Secretary of the
treasury is gradually sinking. Death may
be expected at any moment.
The Hooking Valley railroad suit, involv-
ing $1,000 200, Was decided Thursday in IA
ror of the railroad company in every point.
Father Matthew Ryan of the county OF
Limerick, one of the projectors of the plan
of campaign has been sentenced to imprison-
ment.
| The casket warerooms of Abel Hunt, Ban
gor, were damaged by fire Thursday morn
ing to the extent of $1,000; insured for
$500.
| A powerful ocean tug boat, B. w. Morse,
Capt. Blair with complement of 20 men,
left New York on a raft searching expedition
Thursday.
| The working women of New York, We'd
nesday night, completed their arrangements
for organizing all trades in which women
are employed.
Judge Devens of Boston, has granted an
order restraining hessrs. Cobb, Shines, Hay
| "Sou 0Au L VaoouN Aioi oNhuS - uutCtOfS
on the Eastern railroad.
The Standard Oil Company is about to
commence the construction of an immense
pipe line from Chicago for the transportation
of oil for fuel purposes.
w. S. kingsly, county attorney, was shot
and instantly killed in his Office at Waverly,
Iowa, Wednesday evening, by f. Billings,
another attorney, who was shot slightly.
Representative Moffett of Michigan, died
Thursday morning, at the Providence Hospi-
tai, Washington. The cause of death was
blood poisoning resulting from a carbuncle
on the face.
Joseph r. Mitchell of East Orrngton, 70
years old, while fixing a broken whipple-tree
behind pair of horses. Thursday morning,
was kicked in the head by the horse, and his
skull fractured, killing him instantly.
An unknown man entered Nickelrs jewell
ry store, Wauksha, Wis, Wednesday even
ing, knocked the clerk down with an iron
bar, stole $500 worth of jewelry and an un-
known quantity of diamonds and made his
escape.
Charles Mitchell, the pugilst, has written
letter to Sporting Life, in which he calls
Sullivan ''the bogus champion" and says
that when he is through with Sullivan, the
latter will make no more arrangements un-
der the new prizing rules.
The local manager of Maynard's Con
demned to Death" company, which was TO
appear at Dover, n. H., Wednesday night,
was notified, Thursday forenoon, that the
company would not be kept on the road
longer for financial reasons.
A New York dispatch says: 1t is stated
that plot existed to kill Jere Dunn at the
Dempsey-Reagan prize fight. 1t was dis
covered through careless statements by one
of the conspirators and thus deferred. Dunn
was to be slain in the evening for his killing
Jimmy Elliott.
A conference meeting of the Maine State
Committee of the prohibition party was held
in Portland, beginning at one o'clock Thurs
day afternoon. The principle object of the
meeting is understood to have been to fix
date and place for holding the State Conven-
ton next year.
Frank A. Clark, one of the youngest bLs-
ness men of Portland, member of the firm
of Lord, Haskell & Co.. died Thursday morn
ing. Mr.. Clark was a man with many friends.
He was a member of Mt. Vernon Chapter II.
A. Masons, and an officer of Portland Com
mandery Knights Templar.
Mr.. Isaac Harper of Andover Me-, was
badly injured by the falling of limb while
working in the woods. He was hit on the
head and shoulder, cutting his head badly,
and it is feared that his shoulder is broken.
He was brought from F. +. Thomas Camp
to the Andover House, and now is being at
tended by the physician.
A Fort Pierre, OAK, dispatch says: Bar
ney Travesty, a half breed, weighing 1870
pounds, and Napoleon Welcome, a French
man, weighing $50 pounds, fought with bare
knuckles, Wednesday, Queensbury rules
governing. The men fought for fully an
hour and dropped from mere exhaustion.
Both men were unconscious. The fight was
declared draw.
A fire Thursday morning in the basement
of Fleischman & Co. s wholesale and fancy
goods store on Market street, Pittsburg, Pa,
spread to the stores of c. Yeager & Rosen-
baum Co., also a large establishment
Four firemen were badly injured one crushed
by beam falling on him. He will probably
die. Total loss approximates 5000, 900; in
sured for $l25 900
John Goff, who claims to belong in West
Hartford, VT, reported to the Boston police,
Thursday, that he had been robbed of a
pocket book, containing $2l00. He sold
farm at Hodgkins, Ohio, and then started for
his old home in Vermont, stopping on the
way to see the sights in Boston. His coat
was cut, and while robbery might have been
committed in the manner described by Goff,
the police regarded his story with incredul-
ity.
The lower end of Mill street, Rochester,
N. Y, presented desolate spectacle Thurs
day morning. The street was torn up in all
directions by the explosions of last evening.
Great clouds of smoke and steam are still
rising from the ruins. Portions of detached
walls are leaning out at seemingly impossible
angles and threatening every moment to fall.
The firemen still are playing streams of
water upon the ruins which are still red hot
in some places. There is an impression on
the part of some that several bodies are in
the ruins. Search will be made as soon as
the ruins are cool enough.
An incoming Baltimore & Ohio train plow-
ed at full speed through a crowd boarding
the Illinois curbing train at the Van Buren
street station, Chicago, Wednesday evening
Fully 200 people were thronging the tracks
at the time and withaut a whistle or note of
warning the train was upon them. In an in
slant Miss Lottie Launderville was thrown
distance of 20 feet and instantly killed.
When the train stopped the engine was
boarded by the infuriated crowd of persons
who had narrowly escaped. The engineer
was roughly seized and only escaped lynch
ing by the help of officers.